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Is Bing Maps Hosting Images of a Homicide Victim? [Update]

In Bing Maps, a street view at the corner of Pennington Avenue and Hazel Street in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood shows a single police car, two officers, and what appears to be a man in the middle of the street bleeding from the skull. According to the caption, these images were taken April 29th of…

Bing’s Translator Accidentally Confuses ISIS and Saudi Arabia

Bing, Microsoft’s version of Google, just learned the hard way that fucking up your translation service is a bad way to win friends on the internet. According to a report in the Guardian, the search engine’s translator thought the word “Daesh”—the Arabic word for the Islamic State—meant “Saudi Arabia” in English. The error was pointed…

5 Reasons Not to Use Google for Search

Google is pretty much everywhere. It’s in your smartphone, car, and maybe even your watch— but there’s still nothing like searching Google on a desktop computer. To this day, about 64 percent of US web surfers use Google as their primary search engine. If you still haven’t asked anyone but Google to answer your search…

Bing’s New Live Code Editor Is Surprisingly Useful

Google is famous for integrating tiny, handy features directly into its search results. With a new in-line live code editor that pops up when you search for programming questions, Bing may just have beaten Google at its own game. If you search for something related to a major programming language in Bing, you’ll now get…

Use Bing Search to Tune Your Guitar

Google’s venerable (and profitable) search engine is well known for offering useful tools beyond its core functionality, and Microsoft has been tricking out Bing with a few extra features of its own—such as an app for tuning your guitar right from the search page. Here’s how to make sure you’re playing in tune using Microsoft’s…

Bing Already Has Android Marshmallow’s Best Feature

Microsoft just stepped on Google’s toes, beating the search giant to the on-demand info finish line. Bing now has Now on Tap superpowers, thanks to an update that hit the Play Store this morning. The new app update allows users to long-press the home button and get access to search results based on whatever image…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to another week of apps. Android gets all the cool stuff with an awesome Bing upgrade and your next mobile gaming addiction. iOS is all focused on the camera, and Windows Phone wants to make you more productive. Let’s take a look. Android Bing Bing just upped its game in a major way. Much…

Playing Bing Pong Is the Best Thing You Can Do With Bing

In its continuing efforts to show how cool and down with the kids it is, Microsoft has just added a video game from 1972 to Bing. Yes, this will consume all your remaining spare time this evening. Sure, this is a shameless copy of the sort of thing Google has been doing for years, adding…

Bing finallydecided to encrypt all search traffic. Which is good news for Bing users and privacy. That said, Goggle did this almost two years ago.

Twitter Now Uses Bing To Translate Weird Foreign Tweets

If you’ve always looked longingly over the Fence of Babel at all those foreigners making jokes that you know would be funny, if only you could understand them, then fear not: Twitter has harnessed the power of the internet’s second-best translation tool into its service. As of right now, tweets in a foreign language get…

A Bad Bing Update Took Out Yahoo Search Yesterday

News from the land of unloved search engines: yesterday, both Bing and Yahoo had an outage (don’t worry, I didn’t notice either), caused by a coding booboo from Microsoft. According to a Reuters report, Microsoft pushed out a Bing update on Friday afternoon without bug-testing it properly first. Because Bing’s search mojo actually powers Yahoo…

No, it’s not just you; it looks like some of Microsoft’s services are down right now. That includes Outlook, Hotmail, and Bing.

Facebook Is Ditching Bing’s Search Results

Facebook and Microsoft have had a relatively long-standing partnership when it comes to search: for years, Facebook searches would also show Bing results, and Bing queries have thrown up results from your friends. But history seems to mean very little to Facebook, which appears to have quietly killed Bing results. Reuters quotes a Facebook spokesperson…

OMFG U Can Search Bing w/ Emojis LOL

The Bing search engine will now give you results if you use emojis instead of words in your search query. “With this new feature, you can search using your favorite emoji, and Bing will return results based on the semantic meaning of the emoji,” Bing wrote in a blog post (probably right after sending the…

Google and Microsoft Are Mapping Favelas So They Can Sell Things There

The twisting sidewalks and dizzying density of Brazil’s favelas might deter most outsiders from navigating these crowded inner-city neighborhoods, which informally house about 1.5 million of the country’s residents. Yet in the last few months, both Google and Microsoft have both been seen mapping their narrow streets and dirt paths. According to the Wall Street…

Googlers didn’t make a ‘traitor’ cake for a departing co-worker

You may have seen this hilarious image floating around recently with the caption: “Googler leaves to join Bing at Microsoft. Here’s the cake his co-workers gave him.” Travis is leaving Google for Bing! What a traitor! But unfortunately, it’s a bit too good to be true. Travis, the person who got a job working on…

In the wake of the EU decision that people have a “right to be forgotten” on Google, Microsoft is now offering Bing users in Europe the chance to request that certain links in search results be removed. And evidently, Yahoo will be next.

Microsoft’s Cortana Could Combine the Best Parts of Siri and Google Now

Microsoft is late to the game when it comes to putting a digital assistant on its phones, but the wait might be worth it. Sources close to the project have revealed some of the specifics of Microsoft’s upcoming “Cortana” service to The Verge, and it could be the very best of Siri and Google Now.…

Your Year in Bing Searches: Beyoncé, the Royal Baby and So Many Memes

It’s the time of year when people start looking back over the past 12 months to remember what happened and how it captured the imagination of the population. And to kick things off, here’s Bing’s search history for 2013. There is stacks of data to pore over and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it doesn’t all reflect wonderfully…

How Many Horror Movie References Can You Spot On Bing’s Homepage?

Bing’s still the underdog in the search engine wars; remaining in perpetual second place to Google. And while it’s doubtful that Microsoft will ever win the overall search engine war, today Bing totally wins the Halloween makeover battle with a homepage that pays homage to countless horror movies. https://gizmodo.com/forget-it-this-toddler-just-won-halloween-1450979752 That’s not to say that the…